I didn’t like the unwieldiness of existing planning poker apps so I’ve built one for my team over the weekend - https://estim8.pro/ Built on Elixir Phoenix LiveView, was a great little side project.
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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
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#202I made https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash out of the need to collaborate on org mode documents with non emacs users. Once the first release was done, I got to reflect on the infamous top comment of the Dropbox HN to make an attempt at abstracting the storage aspect of Dropbox so those org document could be made stored on a FTP server, SFTP, S3, ....
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#203I've created an app to quickly launch timers on my iPhone.
I frequently use timers during my day: for tea, naps and for my morning routine, so constantly changing the duration on the default app became a pain.
I created Enchant to be able to launch timers using iOS widgets or Siri, and it's really fast and fun to use :)
I've published the app a couple of month ago: https://apps.apple.com/app/enchant-amazing-timers/id64460937...
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#204https://iAmAgile.io
My dev team were falling asleep during our plannings/refinement meetings. So we've built a tool to keep everyone engaged. Worked surprisingly well
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#205A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them. I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint…
An ebay sniper, for cats.
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#206I wrote something on Android a few years back called Reward-o-matic. Basically every time one of the kids did something really good, you pressed a button next to their name and a counter went up by £0.50. At the end of the month that got added to their pocket money as a bonus. Both the app and the idea worked pretty well.
Very interesting. I'm wondering, as an ex-psychotherapist, if you considered a 'minus' bonus button for really bad things? I think you're right not to (a la hackernews) but wondered if it was tried or considered?
It was never considered.
If you want people to do good things, reward them when they do them and help them understand and improve when they don’t. Taking rewards away is counterintuitive to the goal of a net improvement.
Interested to know why you’re an ex-psychotherapist. I have an academic connection in the field and have had a lot of conflicting discussions with them!
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#207Its still a work in progress.
https://github.com/DumbMachine/pbs/ to use a keyboard to interact with web. It's like vimium but tailored to my liking:
- hints are acronym of textContent ( or metadata ) of html elements.
- A command bar with fuzzy search for browserhistory.
Helped reduce mouse usage, which I think was causing strain on my wrist.
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#208When I was a student I made a site that would parse our registrar's course listing and find all the currently empty rooms in your building. Together with its map you could use it to find a place to chill nearby you. If you were in a more curious mood it was a good way to find an interesting lecture to sneak into the back of as well.
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#209For our first child in 2011, we were struggling to agree on a name, so I created a baby names app that tried to learn the kinds of names you liked, based on sounds, meanings, origins etc. It was my first real attempt at any sort of machine learning, and while we eventually reverted to the much simpler algorithm of my wife putting her foot down, I decided to package it up and launch it on the Mac app store. It was bri…
I did the same for both of our kids. For the first, I created a web app where you could +1 or -1 on all legal names. I even used the Web Speech API to read aloud the names, if you clicked them.
For the second kid, I created an iOS app using React Native (https://i.imgur.com/aaTqXAY_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=gra...) where you could swipe names Tinder-style.
We didn't use the apps to find _the_ names, but to get a narrowed down list we could pick from. The projects were fun and educational.
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#210https://font2png.com to browse font-icons and export them as PNG, with background/foreground color. Usually you want SVG, but sometimes a PNG is better. I use it mostly to generate quick favicons. It was also fun to make it work completely client side with canvas. https://github.com/combatwombat/rmdb imports the IMDb database (at least the limited .tsv files they provide) into MySQL so you can query it. List the high…
Ooh, I have a use for the IMDB one, I hadn't realised they had data export. Thanks.